Wetenskaplikkes wou dié geheim hou: King Tutankhamen was blykbaar Europeers en baie van ons kan familie wees van die Faro. Seems many South Africans (and Americans) who are descended from Western and Northern Europeans are related to King Tut! Th R1 Haplogroup is the main group for Western Europeans and therefore Americans, South Africans etc. etc. Not only was King Tutankhamen Caucasian (European), the scientists who studied it REFUSED to publish the results! Why? (Reuters) - Up to 70 percent of British men and half of all Western European men are related to the Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun, geneticists in Switzerland said. Scientists at Zurich-based DNA genealogy centre, iGENEA, reconstructed the DNA profile of the boy Pharaoh, who ascended the throne at the age of nine, his father Akhenaten and grandfather Amenhotep III, based on a film that was made for the Discovery Channel. The results showed that King Tut belonged to a genetic profile group, known as haplogroup R1b1a2, to which more than 50 percent of all men in Western Europe belong, indicating that they share a common ancestor. Among modern-day Egyptians this haplogroup contingent is below 1 percent, according to iGENEA. It was very interesting to discover that he belonged to a genetic group in Europe -- there were many possible groups in Egypt that the DNA could have belonged to, said Roman Scholz, director of the iGENEA Centre. Around 70 percent of Spanish and 60 percent of French men also belong to the genetic group of the Pharaoh who ruled Egypt more than 3,000 years ago. We think the common ancestor lived in the Caucasus about 9,500 years ago, Scholz told Reuters. It is estimated that the earliest migration of haplogroup R1b1a2 into Europe began with the spread of agriculture in 7,000 BC, according to iGENEA. However, the geneticists were not sure how Tutankhamuns paternal lineage came to Egypt from its region of origin. The centre is now using DNA testing to search for the closest living relatives of King Tut. https://youtube/watch?v=5Vg2BMkEjR0
Posted on: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 02:11:41 +0000
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